Re: [ws-caf] How many ALSs in an activity?

[Ricardo Jimenez-Peris <rjimenez@fi.upm.es>]

Mark Little wrote:

> When going over what the Context model assumed to ALS-to-activity 
> bindings, the following questions arose:
>  
> Do multiple ALSs register for a single protocol? How does the context 
> service know how many ALSs must be registered for a particular protocol?
>  
> I hope we've been clear in the UML/text that the intention was always 
> that multiple ALSs could register with a context service (aka activity 
> service). However, what wasn't clear was the role of the 'type' field 
> in the context. This was intended to map to an implied set of ALSs and 
> recipients of the type could infer from it what was in the context. 
> Defining *what* the type is is within the specification IMO, but 
> saying *how* it maps to specific combinations of ALSs should be 
> outside the scope of the spec. What I mean is that we shouldn't say 
> that urn:foo:bar:1234 is a transactional protocol-type with only a 
> single transaction ALS registered with an activity, whereas 
> urn:foo:bar:5678 is a secure+transactional protocol-type. Other 
> specifications should do that. (It's the same as defining the formatID 
> in the OTS context).
>  
> So, as far as the myself, Greg and Eric are concerned, this is more an 
> issue of text clarification. Comments?

Agreed.

Ricardo

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Ricardo Jimenez-Peris
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